Edward Burns

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Edward Burns Jr. (born January 29, 1968) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. <p>Burns was born in Woodside, Queens, New York, as the second of three children in an Irish American family. He has a sister Mary and a brother Brian. He was raised in Valley Stream, New York, on Long Island, where he briefly attended Chaminade High School before transferring to Hewlett High School. His father was a police officer and his mother was a federal employee; both are now retired. After High school, Burns attended SUNY Oneonta, and SUNY Albany, before receiving a degree in English from Hunter College in 1992. <p>Burns got his start in the film industry right after college as a production assistant on the Oliver Stone film, The Doors. While working as a gofer at Entertainment Tonight, he financed, produced, directed and starred in his first film The Brothers McMullen in his spare time. Once he completed the film, he got a copy to Robert Redford during an appearance he made at ET. <p>In...